HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 45 



movements, cannot ufe their organs with eafe or dexterity, and 1785. 

 often continue, during life, ignorant of the moft common 

 objects. 



AT a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, the fub- Dec - '3- 

 jecl of the Count de WINDISCHGRATZ'S Problem was refumed, fifcbcntrt '" 

 and Mr Commiffioner SMITH read to the Meeting the draught pr 

 of a letter written by him to the Count, ftating objections to 

 the poffibility of a complete folution of his problem, but inti- 

 mating, at the fame time, that the Royal Society of Edinburgh 

 had agreed to co-operate with the other two Academies, in de- 

 ciding on the merit of all EfTays or Diflertations which mould 

 appear in the competition for the prizes propofed, though they 

 declined to accept of the recompence offered in the Count's 

 letter. The Council approved of Mr SMITH'S letter, a copy of 

 which they requefted of the Author, in order to be preferved 

 among their papers, as he did not incline that it mould be pub- 

 limed in the Tranfa<5lions of the Society. 



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